'Babar Azam Is In A League Of His Own'- Twitter Reacts As Babar Azam Registers Yet Another Century

Babar Azam is having a dream run in Test Cricket. After registering his highest score in Test cricket against Australia earlier this year he got to his 7 Test century against Sri Lanka on Sunday.

The century came in at a time when Pakistan was struggling in response to Srilanka’s 222. Pakistan was reduced to 85-7 at one point but Babar put together important partnerships with Hasan Ali and Yasir Shah and brought Pakistan closer to Sri Lanka’s first innings score.

Pakistan lost their 9th wicket on 148 and it looked like Sri Lanka will take a substantial lead but Naseem Shah supported Babar well and Pakistan came very close to Srilanka’s total.

Babar Azam Innings Put Pakistan In A Good Position

Eventually, Pakistan were bowled out for 218 as Maheesh Theekshana got the all-important wicket of Babar Azam.

In the first innings, Shaheen Shah Afridi had picked 4 wickets and despite Dinesh Chandimal’s half-century, Sri Lanka managed only 222 in their first innings. Their innings too followed a similar pattern as Pakistan too had a chance to bowl Sri Lanka bowl out for under 200 but Theekshana’s 38 put Sri Lanka above 220.

One thing would worry Pakistan though as at the moment only Babar Azam seems to be scoring all the runs while the likes of Imam-Ul-Haq and Azhar Ali have struggled. Fawad Alam were dropped from this Test despite being one of the top performers for Pakistan in recent times.

For Srilanka, it was yet again Prabath Jayasurya who was the wrecker in chief as he picked 3 consecutive fifers of his career after picking up 12 wickets in his debut match against Australia.

Babar’s century saw social media praising his innings.

This is how Twitter reacted:

Forget fab 4.. make it fab 5.. @babarazam258 right up there. While rest of Pak batting struggles, he seems in a league of his own. May even be the best all round batsman in the world at the moment given his ODI/T 20 form. And saying that doesn’t make you anti national!?

— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) July 17, 2022

Magnificent inning of Babar Azam comes to an end?
"??? ???? ???????"
King for a Reason❤️#SLvPAK #PAKvsSL #BabarAzam? pic.twitter.com/naQmgTwyk6

— ?????? ?????? (@Junaidtweets99) July 17, 2022

Babar Azam the Wall, the The
Rock, The Pride, The Name of confidence Babar Azam the King ❤️? that's the tweet …#BabarAzam? pic.twitter.com/Lu0YyqMHhK

— M Abu Bakar Farooq Tarar (@abubakarSays_) July 17, 2022

100* for King Babar Azam ?
Great batting by king Babar Azam #BabarAzam? #Pakvssri pic.twitter.com/MSmu6nZKp7

— Hafiz Shahid Ali Khan (@H_shahid_88) July 17, 2022

Highest batting average in Test cricket since January 2018 (minimum 20 innings):

59.04 – Babar Azam ??
58.21 – Kane Williamson ??
54.02 – Marnus Labuschagne ??
52.36 – Usman Khawaja ??
52.07 – Steve Smith ??#SLvPAK

— Nic Savage (@nic_savage1) July 17, 2022

Babar Azam Test Century:

✨ 1st in Sri Lanka.
✨ 2nd as Captain.
✨ 3rd vs Sri Lanka.
✨ 4th in 1st innings.
✨ 5th on the Sunday.
✨ 6th in WTC history.
✨ 7th of his Test Career.#coppied#BabarAzam? #PakvsSL

— Adee Cheema (@AdeeCheema) July 17, 2022

Babar Azam the Wall, the The
Rock, The Pride, The Name of confidence Babar Azam the King ❤️? that's the tweet …#BabarAzam? pic.twitter.com/Lu0YyqMHhK

— M Abu Bakar Farooq Tarar (@abubakarSays_) July 17, 2022

Master craftsman; Babar Azam superb once again??????????.

— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi) July 17, 2022

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